śrī rāma stavarāja stotram

A hundred and two verses from the Sanatkumara Samhita, spoken there by Narada inside a second frame in which Suta reports how Dharma's son put the question to Vyasa. Its viniyoga does what the Rama Sahasranamavali here also does, giving persons where syllables would be expected: Sanatkumara is the seer, Sita is the seed of the mantra and Hanuman its power. What follows is the longest continuous praise of Rama in this cluster, and the title claims the first place among such hymns. It is set out as instruction passed down a line — asked by a king, answered by a sage, reported by another — so that the reader receives it at three removes, which is how these texts establish their weight.